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I have a confession paleontologists sometimes get things dead wrong or get dead things wrong I guess most of the time the mistakes are pretty small like we mistu a fossil of one species for its relative but recently what we thought were fossil leaves turned out to actually be baby turtles in 2003 a
00:18:Colombian priest and fossil hunter published some fossils he found at a site that dates back to their early Cretaceous Period about 132 to 113 million years ago and two of the small round fossils had leaf patterns on them so when he described them he classified them as ancient plants but in 2023
01:36:researchers reported that these fossils weren't plants at all they were the shells of ancient turtle hatchlings and the leaf and stem-like patterns were actually the modified ribs and vertebrae of these baby reptiles and to honor the case of the mistaken identity the researchers nicknamed the fossils
01:53:Turtwig after a Pokemon that's half plant and half turtle got to catch them all
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